The Sun. — London, England, 1810-01-06 00:00:00

This bay wca published, Itleontty printed in quarto, price rl. cs. in boardi, W ALLACE; or, The Fight - of Falkirk. A Metrical Romance. Last night, Paris Papers.to the 25th inst. reached The only article of any importance they cun t lin, is one which inspires us with a hope that an other engagement has taken place in the Mediterra- to,vr 11i3:,. The article to which we allude is dated from Niinits, and states, that a heavy firing was heard on the t3th ultimo, at Atuerncrtcs, which lasted four hours. Our Readers will recolleet that it was from Nismes that we first heard of our late success in the.Mediterranear. We are happy to have it in our power to contra did the report which appeared in some of the Morning P,:pers respedin6 the loss of the Alexandria frigate. That vessel is maw, and has been for some time past, at Sheerness. We this day submit to our readers a very import ant p trt of the correspondence which took place be tween Mr. JACKSON and Mr. SMITH. It appears that we were perfectly accurate in the statement .tvilich we made some time ago respecting the rup ture of the Negotiation. It arose from the.circurn stance of Mr. JACKSON having asserted that the 4.nerican Government was acquainted with Mr. ERSKINE'S InstreEtions, and consequently knew that I.e had not the power to conclude such an arrange. client as he a&ually signed. We are strongly inclined to think that the American Government were looking for an opportunity of breaking off the Negotiation, otherwise it would not have seized with so, much avidity upon an expression which certainly did not convey an untruth, and which we haVe no doubt Mr. JACKSON was justified by the f#l, in using. --r No argument, however, that we can use, can put the cpiesti4n in .so clear a light as Mr. JACKSON'S own Letters, particularly the one written on the 4th Nov. •to which therefore we beg to dire& the particular attention of our Readers. They will no doubt vite.v with patriotic pride the manly and Weld 'lied languaee of Mr. JACKSON, as more strikingly.ob servable in the following passage, in answer to. the pitiful cavils and narrow-minded policy of the Ame rican Miaisteee:— . , Without minutely calculating (says he) what may be the degree of pressure felt at Paris by the dif feti nce in the price of goods, whether landed at Ha vre or at Hatubargh, I will, in myeturn, appeal to your judgment, Sir, whether it! bre. - not a strong and solid rcason, worthy to gukle the councils of a great and powerful Monarch, to set bounds to that spirit of encroachment and uniVer'sal domi ron which would bend all things to its own stand ard ? IS it nothing, in the present state Of the world, when the agents of France authoritatively announce to their viEtirns, ". that Europe is submitting and surrendering by degrees," that tee world should know that there is a nation which, by that Pivne goodness so strongly appealed to in 'the paper to , •. _.6 • • ' I allude (. .13G8RAU S Pfocjwiation to the Cltalonians), is enabled to falsify the asserticre ?. is it not important at such a moment; that Europe and Ain'erica should he convinced, that, from what-, c-.Yer countries koeourable and manly resistance may have been banished, it will still bet found in the Sow:- reign of the British nation, and in the hearts el his subjeas i" • The Letter from Lord MINTO and the Council of the Bengal Presidency to Sir GROAGE BARLOW, part of which we inserted yesterday, is one of the most able compositions of the kind that has ever been sub mitted to the Public. To say nothing of the very elegant and expressive style in which it is written, a consideration slight, indeed, compared with the forcible arguments and constitutional truths with which it abounds, it must be acknowledged that it is so clear and forcible, as to bid, defiance to objec tion and cavil. It is deserving also of high com mendation for the prudence and liberality by which it is characterized throughout. A clear line of dis tinaion is drawn between those unexperienced young men, who cannot he supposed to be sufficiently ac quainted with mankind, and the duties of their pro, fession, to be guarded against those praised vete rans who _employ their experience in the world, not for the promotion of the service, but the grati fication of self-interest, or views of private pique and revenge. To the forioer description of persons it may fairly be inferred, from the tenor of the Let ter, that all proper lenity will be shown, and the sense of the dangers which they have escaped will most probably operate upon their future condu&, and induce them to render themselves as cenver santas possible with their professional duties, in or der to atone for, former errors. But the instigators and promoters of the mutinous proceedings which have drawn forth this masterly composition, will doubtless meet the fate they deserve, and be wholly discarded from a service upon which they have en deavoured to bring disgrace, at the hazard also of essential injury to the State 'by which they were em ployed. It is not however for the temporary ap pliCation of the dOtarines and principles which the Letter in question contains, that it is entitled to warm commendation, as it is a comprehensive develope ment of the essential principles of military duty which may be eminently useful at all times, and therefore we trust that it will be widely circulated among Military Officers, upon whom it cannot fail to impress high notions of what is due to the service in which they are engaged, and the country which, by every consideration of honour, patriotism, and interest, they are pledged to defend, The Persian Ambassador 7-sstit:'r'ily paid a visit to the Bank ; his ExcelL:]i.): wa.:,m.tended 6ir Gott 0& sELEY and On. alighting from his carria2e, he was z - at the entrance in Prince's -street, by'the G9vern, and Directors, and escorted throu;n tie Hall, which was e - ;vered with a superb carpet, to (tie iwerior. Inc Kink Volun teers were drawn up in the Court, and saluted his Excellency as he passed, thtir band performing martial music. Ills Excellency Was conducted through the various Offices by the Governors and Directors, folloued by a numerous train of Ladies and Gentlemen. The procession was proceeded by six Beadles of the Bank with their silver -mounted staves, in their proper costume. The two City Marshals with a number of Peace Officers, attend ed to keep order, and prevent the obtrusion of the crowd, who gained admittance, and nearly choaked up the passages.' The whole routine of the Bank business in the Various offices was explained to his Excellency ash© passed, ancl with which he seemed highly gratified. About two his Excellency, with his suite, enter ed the great parlour, where refreshments were pre pared for them in a very superb style. During this entertainment the bud continued playing in the court-yard, to which his Excellency seemed to at , tend with great pleasure ; and at near four. be took his departure, expressing his hi g h satisfaction at the polite hospitality he had experienced. Thursday Prince STAHREMB ERG, accompanied by his two Secretaries, Messrs. PROVOST and AGNEAU, had a conference with the Marquis 'WELLESLEY and the CHANCELLOR Cf the EXCHEQUER, at the Fo reign Office. The Secretaries of the Austrian Ambassador left town yesterday mot - 114v for Dover, in order to em bark for Calais. The eagerness with which BUONAPARTE seeks to centre in leis capital . all the finest productions of art is well known, and, the following anecdote will fur-, they exemplify it:---'. very fine painting", (the wo man taken in adultery) was taken frotn France during the troubles of the Revolution, and was purchased by , a gentleman in Kent for 20001. BUONAPARTS, being desirous of making his ,colleaion complete, sent an agent to this country with .direttions to purchase the pie - lure, though it should cost 10,0001. The tempting offer made no impression on the Kentish Gentleman, who told the agent that. he chose to keep the . painting. The agent returned' to France, but soon came over again with almtht - unlimited powers respecting the purchase; he wait ed again on the Kentish Gentleman, and grahally increased his - otTer io 30,0001. without effeet: At last the Frenchman offered 40,0001. adding " You may naturally suppose thy employer is no common purchaser; it is, indeed. no other than the Emperor NAPOLEON."--" What !" exclaimed the Gentle- . man, `• is it BUONAPARTE who wants to buy the. picture ? Now, lam very glad you have told me so much, for d-n me if he, shall have it for his crown." The agent departed, wondering how a man could refuse so much money. Mr. CLIFFORD told the Company at the dinner . on Thursday last, of the hateful political principles and designs iroptued to him; but, in the warmth of his eloquence, he 'whotiy foigot to disavow those principles and designs, contenting himself with 'de tenc.ing his coop uCt relative to the Theatrit4i • • turnauces, Printed for T. Cadell, and W. Davies, Strand., MR. GIFFORD's LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. • • WILLIAM PITT. • ''- This; Day was published, Elegantly printed in Three Volumes, Royal Quarto, with tAr•J tinely engraved Pprtraits uf Mr. Pitt, une from the :Suit executed. by Mr. Flaxmah, the other from an ori ::;inal Picture by Mr. Iloppner ' price 81. Bs. boards, A HISTORY of the POLITICAL LIFE of fX. the Right icon. WILLIAM P 'TT ; including same ef the Times in which he lived. By 1014 N GIFFORJ), Esq. Printed for 'T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strpd. . 4, * Very fcw' Copies of 'this Edition remain - but In , L,Lner, in• Six large Vdinnes, Octavo , will be, published , EVERY ENGLISHMAN's BOOK. This Day was published, Ir a very large and closely printed Volume (Mayo, accom ;,, wi,th. separate Maps of every County in England, and with general Maps or %Vales, Scotland; and Ireland, prce zis, complete in boards, or 305. with the Maps co. DICTIONARY of the UNITED KINGDOM, compiled trom Parliamentary, and other Modern Do_ ciwients and Authorities, and containing Ecclesiastical, Geo gcaphical, "topographical, Commercial, Agricultural, and Statistical Accounts of every 'County," City, Town, Parish, flatlet, River, Canal, and other remarkable object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Islands de. pendant on the British Empire. By B. P CAPPER, Esq. Of tile Secretary of State's Office. It would be useless to specify to wit in such a work as tie above-described would be useful, because it would be ~oliicult to dis;:over any Class of Persons to whom it is not in , lispensable for daily and hourly reference. To establish I:1k pet:lll4lr ClairllS to general preference over every other Aiork of the same kind, It is simply necessary to mention that the Author is the person who was employed by Govern ment to condense and complete the Raperts published by Piirliament of the Population and Cultivation of C; re - at Bri taM, and likewise to arrange the Clerical Returns, and the ccrre , ±l2d Lists sent from the different Clerks of the Peace. Pr - lilted for Richard Phillips, No. 6, Bridge-strect, Black_ friars, and to be had cf all Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, in lioards,.and in various bindings. MAILS. AR RlVED—tDublin. DoE—z Gottenburgh, i Lisbon, 6 Waterford. TII E S UT!. 361,F.M. QUIT, D;CiRS FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 PJ, SAT"RDAY, JANUARY 6, 1810. NAVAL NEWS. PLYuotpru, JAN. 4.—arriveri his llaje4ty'sbrig Seatlower, Portsmouth ; and the liferning Star Cartel, Capt. LAvls, from Morlaix. Went up the harbour to be repaired his Majesty's ship Van.guard. The Morning Star Cartel sailed tiotn Morlaix on the 2d inst. ; the day before two privateers sailed from thence, another was seen getting under weigh : t wo -privateers were fitting, and nearly,ready for sea Arrived the rappenburgh brig Vrow Anna Maria, ANDRES STEPHENS, Master, 110111 London, in ballast, bound to Lisbon, put in here by contrary winds ; the Union, DAvrs, from Cork, last from Falmouth, laden with provisions for this port ; the Providence, LOWTHER, from Swansea ; and Richard and Mary, HARRIS, from Newport. POTITSUOUTH, JAN. s.—Arrived the Ciio gun brig of Is guns, from the Eastward. Sailed his Majesty's ship Donegal, of 74 guns, Royal Oak, 74 guns, and the Aquila, for a cruize oft Cherbourg!). . Sailed his Majesty's shipsrAchille, for Plymouth, and Lavinia, of 38 guns, for the Mediterranean. DEAL, JAN..6.—A fine breeze is sprung up from the S.S.E. and the whole of the outward-bound are getting under weigh. • Five o'Clock, P.M.—The outward-bound are ail under weigh, with a fine breeze. CORONRR'S INCWEST.—An Inquest was held yes terday evening, before ANTHONY GELL, Esq. at the Nag's Head, in Grange -court, Leicester-square, on the body of Ann Paris, an unfortunate young crea ture, of interesting appearance, not more than 17 years of age, who, it appeared, had been reduced by some unknown melancholy circumstance, to the most forlorn and destitute situation. It was stated in evidence, that she had taken her lodgings only seven . weeks since,' and that during that time she had evinced the most wretched state of mind, and, on Thursday rutirning;tirged on by the poignancy of her feelings, or the derangement of her intellect, she swallowed a considerable quantity of laudanum. On the violence of her death pangs corning on, medical aid was sent for, but too hate to be of any assistance, and in a short nine she expired.--The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of Lunacy. The history of this poor young creature is at once ronrustic and interesting. She is the daughter of a Monsieur Paris, who was well known in the com mencement of the Revolution, and in which he suf fered. Madame Paris, with her infant daughter, took refuge in this country ; and in "the ruin of her fortune, became a governess in a noble family in Scotland. After this she bad a house in the New. road ; and, -about two years ago, died of the rupture of a blood vessel. Her daughter had been pl-rced at an eminent boarding-school near one of the new squares ; and on the death of her mother was placed under the guardianship of a Member of Parliament, who, with the most liberal and benevolent attention to her destitute situation, resolved to complete her education ; and she had every master of eminence in all the elegant arts. She spoke French' and Ita lian ; touched the piano with great execution ; sung with taste; and had read beyond her years. About six or eight months ago she was met in the square, when walking- with the other young ladies, by a young man in the dress of a midshipman, who' followed her to the door, and who wrote to her under the name of Jones." A correspondence took place. Her imagination was fired ; and she eloped with him under a promise of marriage. His address was found in her box, and they were traced by her guardian, .and separated. Jones declared that she was virtuous, that his intentions were honourable,. and - as a proof of it he was ready to marry her with her guardian's consent. In elfeCt they were mar ried, and sh . J was completely undone. In about a fortnight or three weeks Jones thtew off his.dis guise, and fairly to!d her his real charaater-e-that he was no sailor, but lived by his shifts; tleit he had married her only ter the sum her proteelor had paid him, and that she must provide for herself. She was abandoned ; and the shock had such an effect on her imagination, that she has ever since she eel signs of a disordered intellect. With a heart that shrnnk from vice, she was flung on the world with otita friend or . a home; and in this deplorable state .she became the victim of necessity. About three weeks ago she sew an officer, who is distinguished for his gallantries, and who by his address and attentions so won upon her atfeatons, that she could-neither speak nor think of any other 'Object. This fatal attachment absorbed her whole soul. They entered into engagements to live and die only for one another; and in the frenzy of this pas sioe,or under the idea that she could not be his, and his alone, :he took the desperate resolution of dying for him. She had prepared three phials of opium, two of which she swallowed, and 'she died with a spirit of heroistin; for no persuasion nor force could make her, when seited with the nausea of the poison, take any antitiote to the draughts. She would not suffer the medical men to approach her--'and though after stupefaaion Caine on they administered every known medicine, they all failed of etred. Yesterday, as a poor man, named Sparks, who was in the employment of Messrs. Patens, iron -founders; in Bear-lane, Christchurch, .was at work in the fraundery, a large anchor, weighing upwards of four tons, fell upon hiM, and killed him on the spot. The wife of a tradesman in St. Martin's-lane, Fut a period to her existence on Sunday by throwing herself into the Thames at Hammersmith. The Governors of the Bank of Ireland have just announced their intention of payipg, along with the Christmas dividend, a bonus of 2) per cent. which, added to the annual dividend, amounts to 10 per cent. upon their stuck. one - i,uudred and twenty or thirty logs of pine timber, and d tiler of a vessel, supposed to be about 140 or 150 Wilt, have been picked up on the North Weis Coat cif Ireland. DOCUMENTS ACZOXPANYING THE MESSAGE OF TEE PAESIDEUT 07 T 132 UNITED STATES--(Concluded.) MR. J. 4.501.1 TO MR. SMITH. Washington, Oct. 24, do 9. letter, which you did me the honcur to address to me on the 19th inst. was delivered to me on the follewing day. I shall, without Jobs of time, transmit it to my .Court, where the vutoua and important considerations which it embraces will receive the attention due to them. In the interval, I would be leave to submit to you the following observations, as they arise out of the communications that hare already occurred be- tween us. In fulfilling, a duty which I conceive to be due to my public chin - aaer, I have never suggested, nor mean to suggest, that the mode of negociating pre , scribed by you on this particular occasion—an occa sion seleCted for the purpose of removing existing differences•was otherwise obje&ionable, than as it appeared to me to be less calculated, than it doe4' to you, to answer the prolQssed purpose of our VC gcciation. It was against the general principle of debarring a Foreign Minister, in the short space of one week after his arrival, and without any previous misun derstanding with him, from all personal intercourse, that I thought it right to protest. Since, however, I find by your letter, that it is not intended to apply that principle to me, I will only observe, that in the Case which you mention to have occurred b e t ween Mr. Canning and M r . Pinckney, the conferences were held, under an expedtation, at least on the part of the former, of their leading to a written com munication ; whereas in ours, I, from the begin ning, stated that I had no such communication to make. There is also this essential. difference be tween the two cases, that Mr. Pinckney was charg ed to convey an important proposal to his Majesty's Government, the particulars of which it might be very material • to have correctly stated; whilst the. objet} of that part of my conversation, to which you seem to attach the most importance, was to say, that I was not charged to make any proposal whatever. It could not enter into my view to withhold from you an explanation, merely because it had been al-. ready given, but because, having been so given, I could not ima‘gine, until informed by you, that a repetition of it would be required at my hands. am quite certain that his Majesty's Government, having complied with what was considered to be the substantial duty imposed upon it .on this occasion, would, had this been foreseen, have added to the proofs of conciliatory good faith already manifested, the farther complacency to the wishes of the United States of adopting the form of communication most agreeable to them, and of giving through me the explanation in question. I have, therefore, no,he sitation in infOrming you, that his Majesty was pleased to disavow the agreement concluded .be. tween you and Mr. Erskine, because it was con cluded in violation of that Gentleman's instruetions„ and altogether without authority to subscribe io the terms of - it. These instruaiong, I now understand by your letter, as well as from the obvious deduc tion which I took the liberty of making in. mine of the ti th instant, were at the time r in substance, made known to you; no stronger illustration, there,! :ore, can be given of the deviation from them vvhich occurred, than by. a reference.to the terms of your agreement. Nothing can be more notorious than the fre quency with which, in the-course of a complicated negociation, Ministers are furnished with a gratin.. dation of conditions, on which they may be suc cessively authorised to conclude. So common is the case which you put hypothetically, that in ac ceding to the justice of your statement, I feel mys. seif impelled to make only one observation upon it, which is, that it does ❑ot strike me as bearing, upon the consideration of the unauthorised agree ment concluded here, inasmuch as in point of fact Mr. Erskine had no such graduated instruction. You are already acquainted with that which was - given, and I have had the honour of acquainting you, that it was the only one by which the conditions on which he was to conclude were prescribed. So far from the terms, which he was actually induced to accept, having been contemplated in that instruc tion, he himself states that they were substituted by you in lieu of tbose originally proposed. It may perhaps be satitfaCtory that r should say here that I most willingly subscribe, on this occa sion, to the highly respectable authority which you have quoted ; and I Join issue with you upta the essentials which that auttiotity requires, to constitute a right to disavow tne act of a public Minister. It is not immaterial to observe on the qtrilifica tion contained in a passage you lia-ve quoted, - as it implies th , -2, case of a Minister concluding in virtue of a ful I power. Tv thtg it would suffice to answer, that Mr. Erikine had no full power'; and his ad consequently does not come within the rang► ,of yotir quotation, although it cannot be forgotten, that the United States, have, at no very distaht pe riod, most freely exercised Life right of withholding their ratificaiion from even the authorised ad of their own diplomatic agents, done under the avowed sanction of a 'full power. I conceive that what has been already said, esta blishes beyond the reach of doubt or controversy, that his Majesty's Minister did violate his tottruc• lions, and the consequent sight in his Majesty to disavow an act so concluded. That his Majesty-, bad strong and solid reasons for so doing, will ap pear not only from his instructions having been vio lated, but from the circumstance that the violation of them involved the sacrifice of a great system of policy, deliberately adopted and acted upon, in just and necessary retaliation of the unprecedented modes . of hostility resorted to by his enemy. There .. appears to have prevailed t hrou g h ou t t h e whole of thin transaction, a fundamental mistake, WhiCh would suggest that his Majesty had proposed to propitiate the Government of the United States, in order tu induce it to consent to the renewal of the commercial intercourse between the two countries : as if such had he:enthe relationsof Great Britain and America, that the adVantages of that intercourse were wholly On the side of the former ; and as if in any arrangement, whether cornmerciid or political, his Majesty could condescend to 4.4‘ rter objects of natinnsi policy, and dignity for permission, to trade with another country.